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Doc at a Distance

..., to perform operations without once putting their hands on patients. Medical vehicles equipped with such remote-controlled robots could get surgical care to soldiers in a lot less time than it would take to evacuate them to the nearest base or hospital. For that vision to become reality, however, surgic...

Hotel Guests Often Leave Their Cold Behind

...teers had no visitors and were asked to wash their hands only after using the bathroom. At the time of check out, participants were asked to identify objects they had touched. After they left, ten of the touched objects in the subject’s room were tested for the presence of rhinovirus. Thirty five percent o...

Osteoarthritis May be Sign of Faster “Biological Ageing

.... Most of them were female twins. X-rays of both hands were taken of all participants to check for signs ...tis is the most common form of arthritis, with the hands being one of the sites most often affected. Its frequency rises dramatically with age, but it is sti...

Efforts To Vanquish Skin Disease Among Infants

...ir midst the the people in East Arnhem have joined hands with scholars from the Menzies School of Health Research (MSHR), to develop and integrate educative awareness programmes for their local aboriginal community workers , who in turn can then play a major role in eradicating skin diseases from their ...

Is India Prepared to Face the Epidemics?

... threat of YF as a biological warfare agent in the hands of terrorists". Scientists know that YF virus can be incubated in chicken eggs, preserved for as long as five months in tissues of infected monkeys and delivered by aedes mosquitoes. Aedes aegypti has a remarkable ability that not all mosquito sp...

Make No Bones about Osteoporosis

...eing a serious disease, yet, it is entirely in our hands to make or mar bone health. Because what bones need is just healthy diet and lifestyle! <B...

Encouraging a Lifetime of Healthy Skin Right from the Beginning

...A, Dr. Johnson recommends that children wash their hands often, that cuts and scrapes are quickly cleaned, treated and bandaged, and that children do not touch other people’s wounds or bandages. Bug Bites As summer peaks, so do the inevitable bug bites. However, Dr. Johnson advises that parents and child...

Tribals in the Brink of Extinction due to Malnutrition and Diseases

...e failure of an entire system." Rout washed his hands off the matter: "We organised a healthcare camp for the villagers. Twenty ailing children were admitted to the hospital at Baripada, who have now returned to their homes." Chaitanya Majhi, Orissa's tribal affairs minister who visited the area after...

Its in your ‘hands’ to fight fatal nosocomial infectios

...alth care workers nowadays resort to rubbing their hands with alcohol which has been proven to cutdown the ...o almost half. Canada is the 30th nation to join hands with the WHO in taking a vow to make every effort to reduce health care acquired infections accordin...

Hair-raising issues of hairdressers

...umber of people suffering from dermatitis. If your hands reacts badly to being constantly wet and in constant contact with chemicals, taking precautions can massively reduce the chances getting dermatitis. Most councils up and down the country are enforcing the regulations as we speak, but this mostly take...

Fighting cancer - Multiple Myeloma with long-term therapy

...effects such as numbness, tingling, or pain in the hands and feet, fatigue, and constipation. In contrast, only 4 percent of patients discontinued pamidronate. Patients most likely to benefit from the addition of thalidomide to maintenance therapy were those whose responses to the original chemotherapy ...

Awareness about Women's Cancers- A National Concern

.../ to promote awareness and motivate people to join hands against the dreaded disease. "Run 4 Cancer" will be flagged off by SSP Vijay Singh Meena, from Kamala Nehru Memorial Hospital. Commissioner Allahabad Division RN Tripathi will preside over a lecture on cancer awareness on November 7 for schoolteach...

Experts reject duct tape therapy for warts

...nattractive lumpy warts //which crop up on skin of hands or feet in schoolchildren. In a study conducted researchers gathered data which disproves the popularly attested belief that duct tape is helpful in some way to hinder the growth of warts on extremities. Contrary to popular belief the duct tape onl...

Mismanagement of fractures a major concern, say experts

...elicate surgery on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's hands to correct his carpal tunnel or nerve problem, admitted that mismanagement of fractures is not uncommon in India with Bihar and Uttar Pradesh leading in the number of such cases. "At least 50 percent of cases with complications due to mismanagement...

WHO Urges Hospital Staffs To Use Alcohol-Based Hand Cleaners

...ad by doctors and nurses who forget to clean their hands before visiting a new patient. Didier Pittet, le... Doctors and nurses have to constantly clean their hands with an alcohol-based solution and this practice has to be integrated into health care routines–Mr.P...

Let Us All Join Government To Ban Child Labour

...d labour as the future of our nation stands in the hands of those innocent faces. Source-Newswise...

Cardiocerebral Resuscitation, A New Technique For Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

...ompressions at a rate of 100 per minute. Lift your hands slightly after each push to allow chest to recoil. Take turns with a bystander until paramedics arrive. 3. If an automated external defibrillator (AED) is available, attach it to the patient and follow the machine's voice instructions. Otherwise, ke...

Corporate Hospital and NGO stirred to help children with heart disease

Apollo hospitals have joined hands with the NGO, Madras Round Table 1, in an altruistic gesture to offer treatment for poor children with heart diseases. The novel// partnership has been named ‘Save A Child’s Heart’ (SACH). With the motto ‘Save one child per day’ they aim to give un...

Anti-Cancer Drug Shows Early Promise in Pulmonary Hypertension

...dverse effects are: rashes of the face and arms or hands and feet, mild diarrhea, and fatigue. Source-Newswise RM...

GPs Vital in a Flu Pandemic

... for all groups,' Dr Collins said. 'GPs are old hands at dealing with uncertainty in clinical practice. However, when this uncertainty is coupled with anxiety, lack of clear information and limited awareness about strategies to manage the range of possible scenarios, the outcome is more likely to be cha...

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